My father comes from a generation of film that actors my age don't even know about, which is really sad.

I've been kind of submerged in my own little geographic location for a really long time in Venice Beach

I remember when I first started in the business, I lost a lot of friends. Some were jealous, some were annoyed at the fact that I was an actress.

Right afterward I read Fast Food Nation. That book changed my life: It made me a vegetarian.

If it comes back, I think that Friday night is not a good night to be on.

If you believe that God put you here to act, then you have to be different. Go into casting offices, with something other girls don't have

IF YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING THAT TERRIFIES YOU, MOST LIKELY YOU'RE DOING THE RIGHT THING.

Honestly, I am not trying to discourage anyone from becoming an actress, but if you want to become one be prepared to face everything that comes - along with it

My own personal connection with God was not in a religious sense, so I wasn't really thinking in that way when I got the role and when I started doing it.

My advice is to make acting your second career choice

A business like acting is 90% luck. You can be a star one minute and out of work the next

An artist must paint not simply surface light, but what is inside, what he sees within his subject

As women shut down their needs, they also shut down their sense of pleasure.

As a general thing when a woman wears the pants in a family she has a good right to them.

If I don't get off the mat I'll lose the fight.

There is no such thing as a convincing argument, although every man thinks he has one.

Dialogue is the only way to end war and terror. We need practical solidarity with those who are weaker and diplomacy from below.

Most decisions are seat-of-the-pants judgments. You can create a rationale for anything. In the end, most decisions are based on intuition and faith.

I go back so far I'm in front of me.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

Of course Germany's media are heavily influenced by the country on the other side of the Atlantic Ocean.